Our Impact

Last year seven children placed in the local competition making them eligible to compete at the national level. One of our participants received a bronze medal in sculpture in the 2021 competition!!

We have a robust audience, 19,000 social media followers!

We created informative videos that have been distributed all throughout Ohio to help raise awareness of legislation introduced in the Ohio General Assembly, that would be detrimental to the community. These videos and online petitions have assisted in educating, engaging and mobilizing the community. Legislation such as HB 99 – arming teachers in our schools without gun training, like that received by peace officers. Also, HB 294 the Voter suppression bill which has been stalled for many months.

The health committee hosted a flu shot clinic, several CPR trainings, and a diabetes/blood pressure check event.

With the support of our members and the communities and corporate partners, the 2021 Freedom Fund Dinner was successful in raising funds to support the operations and activities of the branch.

We are hosting a Golf Outing Membership Drive in June and a Community Block Party in July. We are proud to have more than 1100 active members of the Cincinnati Branch.

We created informative videos that have been distributed all throughout Ohio to help raise awareness of legislation introduced in the Ohio General Assembly that would be detrimental to the community. These videos and online petitions have assisted in educating, engaging and mobilizing the community. Legislation such as HB 99 – arming teachers in our schools without gun training, like that received by peace officers. Also, HB 294 the Voter suppression bill which has been stalled for many months.

In 2020, we hosted 15 separate Judicial races.

Our non-partisan candidate flyers helped raise voter awareness of who the Candidates were that would be on their ballot. Many of our recorded online candidate forums have had thousands of views.

We seamlessly transitioned from in-person events to virtual forums during the global Coronavirus pandemic, keeping voters engaged and informed. One Judge praised our forums for probing the judicial candidates and ended a long-delayed effort of conducting an analysis of other methods to increase diversity in the Jury Pool.

In 2021, we successfully hosted candidates for the Mayoral Primary, and nine separate forums in the 2021 November Election for School Board, Municipal Court, 32 Candidates running for City Council, and the Mayoral Race. Many of our online forums have thousands of views and continue to inform and empower all demographics through social media. Not only did we create a platform to interview all candidates but we created additional informative videos from our pre-questionnaire surveys of the candidate to give more insight on their leadership for voters to make an informed decision in the November election.

We are proud of our success with the development of a contact list of religious organizations and leaders in Greater Cincinnati, completion of welcome and introduction outreach to the interfaith religious community, and dissemination of NAACP program information to the interfaith religious community.

We selected 6 students to receive the 2019 Juanita M. Adams, Karla S. Irvine, and Charles Ross, Sr. scholarships. Each student received a $2,000 check, payable to the school where they were enrolled, to assist with the expense of tuition, books, or other fees.

We partnered with the Census to ensure representation during the Mayor’s Job Fair.

We are proud to have helped pass the City of Cincinnati Environmental Justice Ordinance

We responded to more than 100 calls for help in 2020 alone. Calls spanned from basic information requests to needs for legal representation. We’ve assisted several community members with legal representations related to real estate, juvenile, and civil rights violations.

We’ve partnered with several local organizations, including the Social Justice Center of the Southwestern Ohio Urban League, the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati (BLAC), The Cincinnati Black United Front (CBUF), and other local attorneys.

A young man had been assaulted by deputies in the Hamilton County Justice Center and we were able to work with Sheriff McGuffey to eliminate a “One Punch for Pain” policy that the previous administration had in place.

We seamlessly transitioned from in-person events to virtual forums during the global Coronavirus pandemic, keeping voters engaged and informed. One Judge praised our forums for probing the judicial candidates and ended a long-delayed effort of conducting an analysis of other methods to increase diversity in the Jury Pool.

In our GOTV efforts, we have distributed over 10,000 copies of our GOTV Candidates’ flyers in 2020-2021, which assisted in the effort of informing and empowering our communities, helping voters make history in electing the first woman Sheriff in Hamilton County.

We are currently building a relationship with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s office with a laser focus on transparency and accountability.

We have created a pledge built on community expectations and campaign promises for the new Sheriff, and we hope to continue to grow the relationship between the Sheriff’s office and our communities. This collaborative growth in transparency has already led to the activation of more cameras within the Justice Center that also includes sound which was not activated prior to the inquiry. We are still pushing for body cameras on Correctional Officers in this County and across the state. But we appreciate the genuine efforts of transparency the current Sheriff’s Office is providing.

We distributed 2500 voting pieces door to door. 8 political forums, registered 85 people, and completed registration training of 15 people.

We are proud to have supported our adopted class of South Avondale Elementary in many ways, and partnered with the City of Cincinnati (Office of Human Relations) and the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints (West Chester) to expand our Annual Winter Coat Drive.